This paper studies the impact of the early adoption of one of the most important high-technology machines in history, the public mechanical clock, on long-run growth in Europe. We avoid endo-geneity by considering the relationship between the adoption of clocks with an instrument based on the...

Internet platforms significantly facilitate the travel and stay of users. In Europe and the United States, the most widely used platforms are Booking and Airbnb and this paper will provide their comparative analysis of each other. Both platforms use advanced information technologies, such as...